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[Closed] Now Playing ( NON film / game / tv scores ) - Part III
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- CommentAuthormarkrayen
- CommentTimeJan 2nd 2009 edited
There is no way I could possibly begin to choose a greatest "Russian composer." Each one had something special to contribute. Borodin=Polyvestian Dances. Gliere=Ilya Mourometz. Moussorgsky=Pictures at an Exhibition. The list is endless.
My choice falls to Prokofiev because he delivered such consistant quality over the years within a broad stylistic repertoire. He ended on an astonishing amount of 131 opuses, many of them among the finest chamber music ever composed. In my opinion such consistent hard work and good results are unique to him and only some very few other Russian composers. He composed successfully for the smallest and for the largest of ensembles, which is a trademark of a great artist and extremely rare. He is for all these reasons, and because of his wonderful flute sonata opus 94 which is my favourite chamber music of all time, by far my favourite Russian composer. -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJan 3rd 2009
My favourite is Tchaikovsky from everything I've heard thus far. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 3rd 2009
Steven wrote
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis... by Ralph Vaughan Williams
If heaven had a theme, this would be it.
FACT!On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 3rd 2009
markrayen wrote
There is no way I could possibly begin to choose a greatest "Russian composer." Each one had something special to contribute. Borodin=Polyvestian Dances. Gliere=Ilya Mourometz. Moussorgsky=Pictures at an Exhibition. The list is endless.
My choice falls to Prokofiev because he delivered such consistant quality over the years within a broad stylistic repertoire. He ended on an astonishing amount of 131 opuses, many of them among the finest chamber music ever composed. In my opinion such consistent hard work and good results are unique to him and only some very few other Russian composers. He composed successfully for the smallest and for the largest of ensembles, which is a trademark of a great artist and extremely rare. He is for all these reasons, and because of his wonderful flute sonata opus 94 which is my favourite chamber music of all time, by far my favourite Russian composer.
Actually I'm going to agree with Tom.
Such brilliance from the Russians, maybe it's best to sit on the fence.On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthormarkrayen
- CommentTimeJan 3rd 2009 edited
Tim, you're right of course. I'm not trying to convert anyone, I'm just building up a base of criteria that in a logical way establishes Prokofiev as my personal favourite. I wouldn't suggest that his superiority is an absolute.
NP - Johannes Brahms: Double concerto for violin & cello (Isaac Stern, Yo Yo Ma, Claudio Abbado with the CSO)
From Yo Yo's "Appassionato" album, a lovely recollection of his career which also includes the delightful piano/cello arrangement of "Going to School" from Williams' Memoirs of a Geisha. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 3rd 2009
NP : SIGN O' THE TIMES - Prince
Brilliant album! I'm just in the right mood for some electro / funk / soul
On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 3rd 2009
NP : ELECTRIC LADYLAND - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Often cited as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Who am I to argue, this is fookin fantastic!
On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJan 3rd 2009
Hey Timmer, great choices. About time we had some good ol' fashioned pop and rock here. You've inspired me to put on something. Hang on...I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 3rd 2009 edited
Thor wrote
Hey Timmer, great choices. About time we had some good ol' fashioned pop and rock here. You've inspired me to put on something. Hang on...
Some Purple pants? Stacked heels? An afghan coat? Some magic beads?
On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeJan 4th 2009
I feel it is even difficult in some cases to choose just one work from each composer.
Thomaslisten to more classical music! -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJan 5th 2009
NP: JUST A DREAM (David Hudson)
My sister just returned from a holiday in Australia and she bought me this CD just for fun. It's a famous Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo player with a kinda of new age/soft pop-y vein. It's quite bad, with naïve hippie lyrics such as "every man, every creed, everybody hold hands" etc. - you know, like Yanni - but he's apparently very big down-under (right, franz?).I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 5th 2009
Timmer wrote
Thor wrote
Hey Timmer, great choices. About time we had some good ol' fashioned pop and rock here. You've inspired me to put on something. Hang on...
Some Purple pants? Stacked heels? An afghan coat? Some magic beads?
"hang on...."
*phew* Glad it wasn't above a pit of hungry crocodiles!?
On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeJan 5th 2009
He, he...yeah, the suspense was killing you, eh?I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 5th 2009
Thor wrote
He, he...yeah, the suspense was killing you, eh?
My hands were getting sore!On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorBregt
- CommentTimeJan 5th 2009 edited
Woops. Wrong topiiiiiic.Kazoo -
- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeJan 5th 2009
Thor wrote
NP: JUST A DREAM (David Hudson)
My sister just returned from a holiday in Australia and she bought me this CD just for fun. It's a famous Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo player with a kinda of new age/soft pop-y vein. It's quite bad, with naïve hippie lyrics such as "every man, every creed, everybody hold hands" etc. - you know, like Yanni - but he's apparently very big down-under (right, franz?).
If ever someone wants to get a famous didgeridoo player collaborating on a project with them, David Hudson is a regular choice. In the recent Scott Hicks documentary on Philip Glass, you can see them (and other international soloists) working together in Melbourne on the ORION project. I've got to say though, the didgeridoo isn't a favourite instrument. It can add an interesting colour to a texture if there are strong instruments to position it against, but as a solo instrument, or as an instrument against a drum loop track, I don't know that I could listen to it.
NP: Echoes (Ludovico Einaudi)A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthorLSH
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009 edited
NP: The Best Of - Clannad
Ahhhh....
<<< cup of homemade soup
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- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009
Who is Clannad?listen to more classical music! -
- CommentAuthorLSH
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009
Joke? -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009
sdtom wrote
Who is Clannad?
Irish folk band, and exceptionally good too.
ENYA is related and also a cheesy spin off.On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009
No joke at all. Now if you want to talk about Kara Karayev I canlisten to more classical music! -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009
You old Commie sympathiser, you!'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009
I like Ike. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009
You realize that Indy is refering to Tina's estranged husband, right?'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorSteven
- CommentTimeJan 6th 2009
I... do now? -
- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeJan 7th 2009
I've grown a rather dense and coarse goutee. I've now been likened to Lenin, yikes!listen to more classical music! -
- CommentAuthormarkrayen
- CommentTimeJan 9th 2009
After an exhausting day, I've decided to play:
J.S. Bach, Chaconne in d-minor for solo violin (Hilary Hahn)
Of this piece Brahms once expressed in a letter to Clara Schumann:
"On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind." -
- CommentAuthormarkrayen
- CommentTimeJan 9th 2009 edited
Listening to a live stream recording with Joshua Bell performing works for solo violin, of all places in.......... a subway station!
Quite pleasant acoustics, actually
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- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeJan 9th 2009
Excellent quote Mark!listen to more classical music! -
- CommentAuthormarkrayen
- CommentTimeJan 9th 2009
I know! What a compliment, and coming from someone who himelf is considered one of the true masters of music. I'm being driven out of my mind just from thinking abut that quote...